THE BEACH BOYS *
CHRISTMAS ALBUM

1978 Capitol - SM 502164
Stereo
Club Edition

The Beach Boys' Christmas Album is the seventh studio album by the Beach Boys, originally released in November 1964.

Containing five original songs and seven standards, the album proved to be a long-running success during subsequent Christmas seasons, initially reaching number six in the US Billboard 200 chart in its year of release and eventually going gold.

While leader Brian Wilson produced and arranged the "rock" songs, he left it to Dick Reynolds (an arranger for the Four Freshmen, a group Wilson idolized) to arrange the forty-one piece orchestral backings on the traditional songs to which the Beach Boys would apply their vocals.

One single was released from the album, the original composition "The Man with All the Toys" backed with the group's rendition of "Blue Christmas".

"Little Saint Nick", a single which had already been released the previous year, was included on the album.


Track listing Side one No. Title Writer(s) Lead Vocals Length 1. "Little Saint Nick"   Brian Wilson/Mike Love Mike Love 1:59 2. "The Man with All the Toys"   B. Wilson/Love Brian Wilson/Love 1:32 3. "Santa's Beard"   B. Wilson/Love Love 1:59 4. "Merry Christmas, Baby"   B. Wilson Love 2:22 5. "Christmas Day"   B. Wilson Al Jardine 1:35 6. "Frosty the Snowman"   Steve Nelson/Jack Rollins B. Wilson 1:54 Side twoNo. Title Writer(s) Lead Vocals Length 1. "We Three Kings of Orient Are"   John Henry Hopkins Love/B. Wilson 4:03 2. "Blue Christmas"   Billy Hayes/Jay W. Johnson B. Wilson 3:09 3. "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town"   J. Fred Coots/Haven Gillespie B. Wilson/Love 2:20 4. "White Christmas"   Irving Berlin B. Wilson 2:29 5. "I'll Be Home for Christmas"   Kim Gannon/Walter Kent/Buck Ram B. Wilson 2:44 6. "Auld Lang Syne"   Trad. arr. B. Wilson group 1:19




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